Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 15 Sabine-Selwyn
Reference number: HS/15
Date: 1820-1870
Description
Letters from various correspondents sent to Sir John Herschel, with some drafts of his replies and original letters by Herschel recovered from selected correspondents after his death.
Prominent correspondents include: Sir Edward Sabine; Giovanni Santini; Christian Friedrich Schonbein; Heinrich Christian Schumacher; Adam Sedgwick; William Selwyn; Sir Charles Shadwell.
- Reference number
- HS/15
- Earliest possible date
- 1820-1870
- Physical description
- Documents previously tipped onto guards and bound in blue library buckram with volume information on the spine, in gilt. Disbound in 2023 and loose letters in folders.
- Page extent
- 1 volume; 518 letters
- Format
- Manuscript
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Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 15 Sabine-Selwyn, 1820-1870, HS/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_15/correspondence-of-john-frederick-william-herschel-volume-15-sabine-selwyn, accessed on 11 December 2024
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Hierarchy
This volume contains 518 manuscripts:
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Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Edward Sabine
20 March 1825 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/15/1 -
Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Edward Sabine
3 April 1825 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/15/2 -
Letter, from Edward Sabine to Sir John Herschel, dated at Princes St.
4 April 1825 Creator: Edward Sabine Reference number: HS/15/3 -
Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Edward Sabine
5 April 1825 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/15/4
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Correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel
1812-1870 Creator: Sir; John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS
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